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A short, source-backed overview of The Long Human Road to AI Season 1, showing how computers and AI emerged from older human patterns and what readers will learn across seven articles and this overview.
A general-reader history of the learning turn in AI, from Samuel's checkers and Rosenblatt's perceptron to ImageNet and AlexNet, with caveats about generalization and understanding.
A narrative history of calculation before electronics: human computers, abaci, Napier's rods, mechanical calculators, automata, Jacquard cards, and Babbage's engines.